{"id":124717,"date":"2025-05-23T07:58:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T07:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/124717\/"},"modified":"2025-05-23T07:58:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T07:58:08","slug":"france-orders-heightened-security-for-jewish-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/124717\/","title":{"rendered":"France orders heightened security for Jewish sites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"editorJs-text mb-5\">Following the deadly attack that killed two staff members at the Israeli Embassy in Washington, French Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau instructed regional authorities to \u201creinforce security around sites linked to the <a href=\"https:\/\/international.la-croix.com\/news\/world\/a-case-of-anti-semitic-harassment-at-a-paris-university\/8736\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jewish community<\/a>\u201d across France.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editorJs-text mb-5\">In a telegram sent May 22 to local prefects, Retailleau stressed that security measures in France\u2014home to the largest Jewish population in Europe\u2014must be \u201cvisible and deterrent,\u201d calling for increased police patrols and permanent guard posts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editorJs-text mb-5\">Security is to be stepped up at synagogues, schools, businesses, media outlets, and cultural events, with additional support from soldiers deployed under France\u2019s domestic anti-terror mission, Operation Sentinelle.<\/p>\n<p>    Coordination with prosecutors<\/p>\n<p class=\"editorJs-text mb-5\">Retailleau also urged local officials to coordinate with prosecutors to ensure proper oversight of identity checks, bag inspections, and vehicle searches, in line with judicial procedures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editorJs-text mb-5\">The Washington attack took place outside the Jewish Museum in the heart of the U.S. capital, not far from the Capitol building, during a reception hosted by the American Jewish Committee. Police said the suspect acted alone and shouted pro-Palestinian slogans before being arrested.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editorJs-text mb-5\">French President Emmanuel Macron condemned what he called an \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/international.la-croix.com\/news\/ethics\/rabbis-urge-european-leaders-to-halt-new-wave-of-antisemitism\/18621\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">antisemitic attack<\/a>\u201d and offered his condolences to Israeli President Isaac Herzog, expressing his \u201cthoughts for the families and loved ones of the victims.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following the deadly attack that killed two staff members at the Israeli Embassy in Washington, French Interior Minister&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[26388,2000,299,36,7163,49],"class_list":{"0":"post-124717","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-antisemitism","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-france","12":"tag-israeli-palestinian-conflict","13":"tag-united-states"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114556089550459469","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}